DNS records tell other computers on the internet where your site is. Every domain name on the internet (eg Swift-Hosting.com, cnn.com, bbc.co.uk etc) has at least two DNS records. Our DNS records are These DNS records are essential to your site functioning, as they tell other computers which IP address, or remote computer your site resides on. For example, if you were to look at www.swift-hosting.co.uk your web browser would communicate as follows:

Simply go to the place where you registered your domain name. Log in to your account and change the details where it says primary & secondary DNS. Instead of the details that are there at the moment (your current hosting provider or the domain register' servers) type the following: (Virtualwebstudio's servers): If someone else registered your domain name on your behalf you will need to contact them and ask them to update your DNS into the above.

HostDrive.Com's dedicated servers include BIND and a DNS Manager that makes it simple for you to set up multiple DNS zones and to create and manage individual resource records for each zone. However if you require us to do your DNS, we do provide Primary and Secondary DNS for FREE!!!

This is slightly more complicated, but for the purpose of this overview, we'll try to keep it as general as possible. There are 2 basic places DNS records reside: When you register/purchase your domain name on a particular "registers name server", your DNS settings are kept on their server, and in most cases point your domain to the Name Server of your hosting provider. This Name Server is where the IP number (currently associated with your domain name) resides.

MX records are a bit like sign posts, giving directions for incoming mails to the computer who is designated to receive them. When you send a mail from your computer, it is usually sent to an outgoing SMTP (e.g. Ocean Mail Server) which is then responsible for deciding where to send the mail. It makes this decision based on the MX records for that mail’s domain (the domain is the part after the @ symbol in the email address).

When you register a domain name, the domain registrar company usually provides you with an account for managing this domain name. You can use this account in order to change the DNS records, the Whois information, etc. If you do not have such an account, you must contact your domain registrar company with a request for a change of the name servers.

Different types of information can be associated with a domain name by creating different resource records for the name. Each resource record provides a specific type of information. Below is a listing and brief description of the DNS resource records supported by DPT.

Advanced users may require individual records updated, added or changed for their domain name. This may be the case for instance if you have your own mail server and wish to have mail exchange records added. We will make administrative changes to your DNS record free of charge so long as these changes do not become more frequent than 10 change requests per year. If you require more frequent changes we reserve the right to charge an additional administration fee.

Not at this time. HexDns focuses on simply retrieving resource records. Dynamic DNS updates are on the wish list for a future version.

DNS (Domain Name System) is a system that translates a domain name from letters (www.UniversalDomains.net) into a numerical IP address (NS1.UniversalDomains.net 63.85.86.14). Each time you register a domain name you must specify your DNS information. If you register a domain name through UniversalDomains.net, you can use our DNS information free of charge! This is known in the industry as "parking" a domain- parking is free using UniversalDomains.net's servers.

If we manage the DNS for your domain, we can make changes to your zone (MX, A, CNAME, etc.) records for a nominal one-time setup fee. Request these changes here. With our optional DNS Management Service, you can control all of your domain's zone records and make changes at any time without additional cost.

If you need dynamic DNS for a host which has multiple IP addresses (round-robin load sharing), then you must first find the internal ID for each address by doing a "view source" on the "IP Addresses" screen. You can then select which address you're updating by specifying the ID number in the update URL, as in this example: http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?host=dyn.burtonsys.com&dnsto=66.57.10.